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  • The cover reminds of Wyoming in USA, but still combined with the song,it gives a strong anti-imperialistic and anti-assimillating message

  • Hey dude try putting up a picture of western australia.That place is not the western desert i don't know where it is but it's not where i call home EPIC FAIL! This is the flattest country in the world there's no natural structure's like that here only Ayers rock and that defiantly isn't it!!! That looks like a scene from an american western.

  • Song brought to mind the wildfires in America in 2011 that the Feds withheld firefighters. But, there are those that point the finger at fires in rainforests or land clearing for food. Both are actually wrong but the US can put out fires if given the chance.

  • Anyone know the location of the background pic?? Good song too! :D

  • @CorteneyPadalecki mmm it must be Ayers Rock, Uluru (one of most famous Australia islands in Northern Territory)

  • @CorteneyPadalecki oh no sorry, apparently it's a shame but Veviska put a picture of smth like Monument Valley (USA) instead of Ayers rock... :O

  • @CorteneyPadalecki Not western australia thats for sure in fact not even the right county!

  • very good song - one of my favorites from Midnight Oil ...

  • or basically the same happening to any indigenous people, such as the Native Americans to the colonists or the Highlanders the Romans

  • Song was actually written about how the aborigines were losing their land and culture to modern civilization

  • IM GOING TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG WHEN THE EARTH CANT TAKE NO MORE!

  • I think the main idea of this song is that humanity have done so much pain for the Earth with all the modern technologies and shit like that..

  • Guys guys you're having it all wrong...

    Its all about pollution and enviroment.

    How do we sleep while our beds are burning --> how do we sleep while we are destroying the world.

    The time has come to say fair's fair, to pay the rent --> the meaning behind that is that we should stop wasting the world and give nature back his health or something like that xD

  • I listen this music in english class ! x) 

  • 45 degrees Celsuis is equal to 113 degrees Fahrenheit. Dang that's hot, Id give it back too.

  • what is the meaning behind this song???

  • @michelle29375 It's about giving land back to the Aborigines i think.

  • GET WELL BOZO_WE LOVE YA G&T

  • i was wondering, why i had troubles falling asleep lately. Finnally got an answer, but it won't much of a help, beds are still burnung.

  • I LIKE THIS SONG

    WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS GROUP?

  • great "peter gunn-ish" rhythm section on this one. makes me wanna get behind the cause of giving back captured lands around the world. but wait, does that mean i won't have modern amenities? nah...nevermind

  • Why the FUCK we have images or the US outback on a Down Under song????

  • @12BWB well this song is about giving back to not just the aborigines, but to all those natives who lost there land due to the greedy zealot-like euro's during the time of colonization.

  • @12BWB ino its bloody stupid

    

  • this songss weird, but something about it makes mee love it.

  • for music video type into search box "gopro oregon duck hunting boat"

  • The last part of the song reminds me that the time has come to undo 500 years of oppression and colonialism that was put on the indigenous and aboriginal people of the world over!

  • Vh1 brought me here. They had their 100 greatest one hit wonders of the 80s, and this song was ranked #95 on the countdown. Love the song.

  • This song is awesome

  • l♥ this song

    ☺

  • Where is the airplane going over the road and the 7' dude singer?

  • hem..why pic monument valley, usa...the song is about australia (even thou same concept applies)

  • what a tune!!!! love it :)

  • To all those criticizing the picture I have used in this video: if you saw my other videos, you would see that the pictures I choose have nothing to do with the song. I only try to find a background that would make it easy for the lyrics to show. I'm not very fond of videos that have a plain background, such as black or white. I guess it's personal preference, but I don't need a lecture from all of you about this band or where they come from.

  • @veviska your a dick

  • @cobboGHS91 No...I'm a girl :)

  • @veviska sorry

  • @cobboGHS91 it's alright, no big deal ;)

  • Keep expecting to see cowboys and indians riding past! Legendary song by one Australia's best bands. How come you have used a picture that is so obviously not of Australia? Nice try but why don't you take this down, put in a picture of Ayre's rock or something so you don't look like an idiot!!!!

  • haha, this band is from Australia, not Utah.

  • @BYUbleedblue12 great band i like it regards from MEXICO!!

  • ffs this is for hippies...but the tune is good and the chorus ^.^ gj

  • great vid, great song. thanks for posting

  • good job, I'm not sure,.. but think you can , (in about me section)>on your channel put all videos are for (educational purpose) and in the more section. or some such thing, can't remember exactly. cause i don't upload? maybe I can find the post telling me how? or you can search it here?

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  • @lightpino hey look ozzy caught the bat!!

  • @lightpino hey look ozzy caught the bat lol

  • Now that is what I call music. I mean nowadays, there are no real lyrics... It's the sae line over and over and over again. I love this band. And I love this song. My dad told me what it was about.

  • Classic song :D

  • I like the song but what does some place in the US have to do with an Australian song about how the indigenous people were treated unfairly by the white settlers.

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  • @Hookedonlemons Hello? The song is about the Australian and the aboriginese. So I have absolutely no Idea why you told him that...

  • I think that the version of this song by Jessica Boehrs (Novaspace) is much better than this Ozzie crap. And Jessica is absolutely hot! What does anybody else think?

  • @CrazyDave861 No shit man, Ozzy is a god!

  • @CrazyDave861 Are you kidding me! This is version is way better than that girls shit version. She looks too happy when she's doing the song which is a total give away that she doesn't know that this song is about the Australian Aborigines.

  • i think this is one of the best cover here in youtube,great job there vevs..thanks for adding in the lyrics...awesome...post more...

  • @yantanino27 thanks...I will do more videos if they don't remove them...so far they took down 2 videos because of "copyright infringement" and said I have one more strike before they'd close my account :/

  • What a great song and message on behalf of the Aborgine natives. Wish the US paid tribute to our native Americans like Midnight Oil did for their own. My regret is I didn't know about Midnight Oil back in the 1970s. Don't know how I missed them back then. Their music is still as powerful as it was back then.

    Wish they could come back to the US for a tour, but doubt it will happen. My best to them all and all those who still keep their flame burning!!!

  • @goldenstarpcfl You're right, Midnight Oil probably won't tour U.s again because Peter Garrett is now in politics as Minister for the Environment, heritage and the arts here in Australia.

  • nice

  • EPIC FAILED

    Midnight Oil is an Australian band and has nothing to do with the Monument Valley in the US

  • hahahahaaa xDD

  • fuckin´ love this song

  • i think you did a great job with the video! mrDarcyzpp get a life faget!!

  • @The52warriors Thanks :))

  • MrDarcyzPP shut the hell up! if you aint got nothing good to say cunt! haha

  • Very well done. I like it very much. Thank you for uploading.

  • Sehr schön, I love it :) Danke

  • good song

  • Oh, and also, make a freakin' video if you're gonna. Not some fancy lettered crap over a picture. How boring.

    You have more in you than that. Show us what you're made of.

  • I'm just wondering, and I hope you won't be offended, but are you a fucking idiot? Haha...just kidding!

    I mean the song obviously doesn't belong to you...so why tell us?

    Also, whether you intend copyright infringement or not, you either have or you haven't.

    That's the way it is. Legally, you haven't, because you make no money for the song. Youtube infringes however, if you use the song and they don't have any rights to it.

    So relax with all this paranoia...

  • No offense taken. First, I made this song because I, as well as many others, like to listen to a song and sing along (or at least follow along with lyrics). That's the reason I made it, not because it belongs to me. It's one of my favorite songs and tunes. Furthermore, it's not paranoia...YouTube has deleted a few videos just like this one only because someone has reported it as infringement. If you have 3 strikes, they close your account. I've gotten 2 for these videos so far.

  • I love this song so Im glad u did this vid :)

  • when I hear this,I sometimes feel ashamed to be white...

    What happened to the aborigines ... horror T.T

  • You shouldn't be ashamed to be white...white people didn't do it. It was British people. White people have also be enslaved by the Brits. But the Brits make it look like it's ALL white people. By the way, that also includes Dutch, Belgian, Germans. And it's governments, not people. If gov'ts were careful with other races and creeds so would regular people be. See, it's like this governments and corporations hate people. The way these entities treat people I would never treat anyone that I like.

  • yes ...I think you're right.thx^^

  • @MrDarcyzPP you've said a mouthful. i wouldn't treat my worst enemy in that fashion. unless they intended to upend me, of course. ha. silly human nature

  • awesome ^^

  • 45 degress that's alright we like your video and lyrics thank you

  • I love this song.

  • das haben wir letzens in musik gesungen

    soo hammer lied :D

  • 1:00 good

  • Ein genialer Song

  • Thank you for posting lyrics. I love listening to my favorite songs and being able to read the lyrics too.

  • @Coretella I just hope they won't delete it as they did some of the others I've made, because if someone claims one more copyright against one of these, they'll delete my account :-/ But enjoy :)

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